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In Context: texts&beheadings/ElizabethR

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texts&beheadings/Elizabeth R, Karin Coonrod’s inventive deconstruction of Queen Elizabeth’s writings, comes to BAM on October 21. Context is everything, so get even closer to the production with this curated selection of articles and videos related to the show. After you've attended the show, let us know what you thought below and by posting on social media using #textsbeheadings.

Program Notes

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Q&A
UpClose: Karin Coonrod (DCTheatreScene.com)
“I hunger—like many of us, I believe—for transformational theater,” says Coonrod, “something where Dionysus is present, grinning, and you walk away different from how you walked in.”

Q&A
John Conklin: A Man of Drama, By Design (BostonGlobe.com)
The texts&beheadings designer talks about his work, retirement, dramaturgy, and more.

Website
Gina Leishman (GinaLeishman.com)
Learn more about the texts&beheadings composer.

Readings
Writings by Queen Elizabeth (Luminarium.org)
Elizabeth opineth on fortune, religion, and much more.

Readings
On Queen Elizabeth, Writer (PoetryFoundation.org)
Count mastery of oration and epistle among her many writerly gifts.

Watch & Listen

Video
On Compagnia de Columbari (YouTube)
“What Karin [Coonrod] does is bring language to life in ways that make us hear the ideas in ways that we’ve never heard them before.”

Worthwhile Words...

In Defiance of Fortune
Elizabeth I 
Never think you Fortúne can bear the sway
Where virtue's force can cause her to obey.

Now your turn...

What did you think? Do you have a new appreciation for all things “Elizabethan”? How did Coonrod’s directing illuminate Elizabeth’s texts? Tell us what's on your mind in the comments below and on social media using #textsbeheadings.

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